Thanks for your help it was just what I needed and it works great!

"CLR" wrote:

Sorry, forgot the final case of the cell being anything other than containing
7 or 8 characters...........

=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),IF(LEN(A1)=7,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID( A1,2,2)),""))

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"CLR" wrote:

=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),IF(LEN(A1)=7,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID( A1,2,2))))

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"wsucougar" wrote:

At issue is some numbers are 7 digits and some 8 (ie 7012006 or 10012006).
None of my attempts resulted in excel recognizing as valid dates.